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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-01-24
The heatIng Of Rallwax cars.

Washington Corr. N. Y. Commercial Advertiser
Since the recent disaster on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroadn near Tif1in, o., the subject
of car heating has attracted great deal of
attention among inventors and patent attor-
neys. Every mail arriving in Washington is
loaded with letters asking for information
respecting inventions for this purpose on
which patents have been already issued, and
the draughtsman's division of the patent Of
flee has done thriving business in the sale
of drawings of the various apparatus patent
ed to date.
Mr.. Gardner, chief draughtsman of the
patent Office said today: always after a
serious railroad accident or great fire, by
which many persons are burned to death, we
have flood of new applications for patents
on inventions designed to prevent or dimin-
ish the danger Of loss Of life by fire. The
Tifin disaster is certain to bring in many
more. Itwould seem that among the hun
dreds Of devices which have already beer
patented there must be some that weald do
the work for which they are made with sat-
isfaction. Our books show 19l stationary
car heaters designed TO prevent a conflagra-
ton IN case o. wreck, 81 pendant heaters
1Oh ehO pulpOot, duQ OF SlcdIu Ubdb6TS.
BESIDES these there are numerous devices
Tor heating. with petroleum and gas in yari-
Gus FORMS"
A patent attorney, who has had a great
deal of experience in investigating the mer-
its of the different car heaters, was asked
his opinion as to the practicability of any of
them. He said: There is no doubt that
some plan can be devised for thoroughly
heating cars without danger of fire. Wheth-
er or not any one OF those already patented
is perfectly applicable to the work for which
it was designed is for the railroad companies
to decide for themselves. As far as the
drawings and models which have seen go,
they appear to work to perfection. But the
difference between model and the device
itself when put in actual operation may be,
and frequently Is, very marked. There are
dozens of patents on steam heaters which
give promise of perfect satisfaction. / have
never seen one of them tested myself, put i
understand that the great trouble is the fail
ure of the steam to retain enough heat to be
effectual in very cold weather. 1t would
seem that steam will eventually be adopted
as the means of heating cars. but its appiica-
ton has yet to be perfected"
An officer of the Patent Office, who was
seen later, said that the Office had no means
Of knowing the value of any of the devices
patented. Out of the hundreds, of which
models or drawings are on file, he thought
there must be some of value He suggested
that If the railroads are really in earnest in
their desire to secure some appliance that
will entirely obyiate the danger of fire they
might singly or collectively send practical
men on here to make careful examination
of the devices which the inventors of the
country have to offer.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-01-24

The railroad commissioners in their annual
report call attention to the fact that notwith-
standing our general railroad law a good
many railroads are still organized under
special charter granted by the State, and sug-
gest that it would be we'll to make the prac-
tice in this matter uniform, as it is unfair and
unjust to place some railroads under the re-
strictions of the provisions of the general law
and to allow others by special charter rights
and privileges that those organized under the
general law do not have. The point seems
well taken. Another suggestion Of the COM
missioners which deserves earnest attention
relates to grade crossings. To compel the
railroads to change all their grade crossings
at once to above or below grade would involve
such an enormous expense as to be imprac-
ticable. But the commissioners think it would
be neither unreasonable nor impracticable to
require the removal each year of at least one
grade crossing on every hundred miles of
road in the State. Such policy would in
the course of fifty years abolish all the grade
crossings. Another suggestion they make is
that towns be forbidden to lay out highways
across railroad tracks except with tbs con-
sent of the commissioners, There are now
two statutes concerning rsi,foad accidents,
which require two tribunals to investigate ac-
cidents at the sa' e. The commissioners
recommar Assa of them be repealed
and sNsos.Ibunal be empowered to
inve So .accidents. The increased weight
Of e4sasi7les out of all proportion to the sub
structure is another evil which the commits
sioners think needs attention.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-01-24

ening of woman's sphere of activity has
taken place within the last forty years;
within the time that the Woman's Suffrage
Association has been at work. The Assoeia-
ton cannot of course, claim to have caused all
this change, but it may have helped it along.
And on the other hand this advancement is
the grea. encouragement of the woman suf-
frage movement. 1t is greater encourage
ment than any of the partial victories which
have been won from State or Territorial leg
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-01-24

Rev. Mr.. Abbott, the gentleman who
spoke in behalf of the Third Party Prohibi-
tionistS at Reception Hall Saturday evening,
followed very closely the speech delivered
here last fall by ex-Gov. st. John,
repeating even the misstatements made
by the head of the party. For instance he
said that when the Republican party came
into power in this State it found pro-
hibitory law on the statute book. That is
not so, and very little investigation on the
part Of Mr.. Abbott would have saved him
from this blunder. Mr.. Abbott is here, ac-
cording to his own statement, on a collecting
tour. We fear he will not go out of the State
loaded down with wealth. Gov. st. Johns
speeches last fall came so high that the
Third Party people have not been very flush
since.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-01-24
MONDAY MORNING, JAN. "a.

We do not read anonymous letters and commun
cations. The name and address of the writer are
j ALI eases indispensable, netnecessarily for pub
iicatin but as guarantee of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve
conanuaical 'ons that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-01-24

DR.. McGlynn must either submit to the
propaganda or withdraw from the Catholic
church. There is no middle ground. The
church may compromise with whole people,
as it did in the case Of the National League,
but not with an individual.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-01-24

The railroads control about all of our wa
ter front that it is desirable they should
some people think good deal more. The
city government is right in setting its face
against any scheme that looks to giving
them more
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-01-24

The BiddefoId journal thinks that voters
can purify the caucus much more etfectually
than the legislature. That is true, undoubt-
edly, but IL the legislature can furnish any
assistance let it do so.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-01-24

Miss Van Zandt's parents have come to
their senses. She is not going to marry An
archist Spies. They do not appear, however
to have found their wits until the county
clerk had found some obstacles to the mar
riage which would require a lawsuit to over
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-01-24

Having been the battle ground of Europe
Tor centuries it isnot surprising that Belgium
Is becoming uneasy at the promise of the
spring
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-01-24

Rough-on-rats seems just now to be good
deal rougher on men and women. 1t is get
ting to be the great popular remedy for a
weary life.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-01-24

The Belgium generals are agreed that war
will break out in May or June.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-01-24
POWER ALREApY no pEcLARE NoN-INrER-


Canada is all wrong in her present attitude
to be set right. Indeed, she ought TO have
been set right long ago. But it is worth
while to inquire whether Congress should
commit itself to an extreme step merely be-
cause the moderate step which it adjudged to
be sound and effective last year has not been
taken. The present purpose seems to make
a double amount of threatening do duty for
a little resolute action in the first instance.
If, on the other hand, good reason can be
shown why the provision of the Dingley law
was not put in force, it might be advisable to
consider other measures.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-01-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

shall offer for sale several Odd many Regular
Lines low prices The sale
ct Of this sale reduce stock Of Fall and Winter Goods and
dispose of all Odd Lots Samples Mists, stock All
sales will be for cash. credit given at these prices any
camstances The following list mentions but few of the bargains
Offered
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-01-24
CURRENT COMMENT.
INTERESTING INFORMATION.
paSton Cloha

Boston women are not enthusiastic on the
suffrage question, so far as voting for men,
bers of the school committee goes A year
ago more than 1000 voted this year less than
1000.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-01-24
STORIES FROM THE STATE.
AUNT POLLY.
Madison Bulletin.1

AUNT POLLY.
Madison Bulletin.1
l would like to say to Aunt Polly" write
as often as you can for we all like to read
your correspondence.
IT'S COLD WINTER.
Ellsworth Americana
We are still in want of some good seasoned
hard wood in payment for subscriptions to
the American.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-01-24
HOW TO MAKE HENS LAY.

tPittsield Advertlser.l
By request of Ivan Libby, a little 7-year-
old boy of this village, give his version of
show to make hens Hay" He says, 'We
have twenty hens and they hadn't laid an
egg for a fortnight, so | went over to Mr..
Soule's store and bought four pounds of hen
feed and gave them about one fourth of
pound and right off two of them went on to
their nests and in shortItime one of them
laid an egg and the other tried but couldn't,
so she came off and ate little more of the
feed and then went right back ON to her nest
and in few minutes laid her egg, and that
is the way it works, SO everybody had better
fry IL -
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-01-20
echoed the partners in various inflec-

echoed the partners in various infec-
tions.
Gas Count NIarsoni's son-in-law !
should be able to influence a large
amount of business, and it would be
more fitting if my name appeared in the
name of the branch firm"
500 you mean to say that you are 60
ing to marry that young lady, Count
Marsoni's daughter?" said Mr.. Hodgson,
with wonder incredulity, and tinge of
newborn respect for his clerk mingling
In his countenance.
1T is as good as settled, SIR" said
Tommy modestly. "Of course this is a
private matter, but it is one that would
naturally be taken into account" This
was quite evident, and Tommy, having
made his shot, rose, bowed, and with
drew.
Before half an hour had passed the
firm had taken their resolution. The
share which ommy was given repre-
sented little more than a somewhat
liberal salary, but he was included as
partner in the branch firm of Hodgson,
DunfOrd, Mathers & Co., of Turin. AS
soon as the partnership deed was drawn
up and executed, Tommy returned to
Italy, and had another interview with
the Count, who, imagining that he had
misconceived the young mans true posi-
tion all along, was politeness itself.
The young partner in the wealthy house
of English bankers was one who might,
without any impropriety, be presented
10 society as his daughters husband.
Within three months the marriage was
celebrated. Tommy had done the trick.
- Whitehall RecieIU.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-01-20
Fruit Over the Fence.

l have large pear tree that bears a
crop of valuable pears every year. The
tree stands on my land, about six inches
from the line, and the branches extend
over my neighbor's line. Who owns
the pears that grow on his side of the
fence, he or |? He says he does, and
the neighbors seem inclined to agree
with him, on the ground that the tree is
nourished in part from his soil and he
should have part of the crop in return.
l don't want to dispute the matter if l
am wrong. What say you9
ANs-It would seem at first thought
but just that your neighbor should be
entitled to the pears that overhang his
premises. He has certainly such con-
troll over the tree that he could oblige
you to remove every branch on his side
of the line, or do it himself at your ex-
pense in case he should want to build
there. But we find the law as regards
the fruit clearly established. There
was a case taken to higher court in
Connecticut, where it was decided that
''the tree, with the fruit thereof, in
Guiding the overhanging branches, is
the sole property of the owner of the
land from which the trunk of the tree
rises, and the neighbor is liable to tres
pass if he gathers the fruit from over
hanging br nches and appropriates it to
his own use" There are two cases re-
ported where courts in this State held
the same doctrine. These decisions do
not seem to refer to fruit that has fallen
to the ground, but change of position
could scarcely affect ownership. Still,
it might be questioned if the owner of
the tree could go on his neighbor's
premises to gather it without commit
ting trespass. A writer in the Albany
La1o Journal some time ago, treating on
a similar question, expressed the opinion
that the owner of the fruit has perfect
right to gather it after it has fallen on
his neighbor's premises as well as to
pick it from the tree. We do not know
of any legal decision on this point
Nelo York Sun.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-01-20
HideOus Crime in France.

A Paris letter to the London Daily
Neags has the following: 1t is hard to
conceive any more awful crime than the
burning alive some time since of an old
woman by her children, yet case of
the murder of brother under circum
stances well nigh as appalling is being
tried before the Ardeche Assizes, and
sheds a gruesome light on a hideous
side of the character of too many French
peasants and suggests the query, are
the worst Parisians as bad as the worst
rustics2 The pair of malefactors tried
in the Ardeche killed their brother in
his bed, and cut up and boiled his re-
mains to feed their pigs. The indict
ment states that the brothers Faure
lived together in the hamlet of Barnas,
in the Ardeche mo ntains. Claude,
the elder one, was a widower, and had
saved up small fortune. His brother
Jean, who was idle and covetous, was in
state verging upon misery. He had
married a woman named Rosine Plan
cher, who urged him on to all manner
of wickedness, and she seemed to have
remotely inherited the character of her
grandfather, who had been sentenced to
penal servitude for life for having been
an accessory to burning a woman alive.
Claude, the elder brother, had the mis-
fortune to say that he intended to leave
his money to a near neighbor, Nine.
Drevon. From that moment he was a
doomed man. One night Jean went up
to his brothers bedroom and broke in
his head with a crowbar. Behind him
were his wife and her brother, an ex-
policeman, who has hanged himself in
prison, who were abetting him. They
all three carried the boGy down stairs
to the stables, where they sawed it to
bits, and after this boiled the remains
in a caldron, t gether with potatoes
and cabbages for the pigs. Jean
| buried the bits of skin in field. and
threw away the bones in a mountain
rift; but "the way of transgressors is
hard" These precautions availed them
nothing. The neighbors suspected a
foul murder and helped the police to
find tho few fostering remains, and then
| the murderers owned to their guilt.
In court Jean Faure attempted to cast
all the blame upon his wife, who, he
said, had urged him on by threats of
poison and set him when drunk to do
the deed. Rosine was then ushered in.
She first denied everything, but when
the presiding Judge told her what her
husband had said she cried out to him
"Wretched man! wanted to save you,
and l would have taken all on my own
shoulders" Here Jean Faure was taken
i'll, and SO the court ad journed.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-01-20
A HORSE GRILLED ALIVE.
The Steam Heating COmpany's PitfalI on
Park Row an Oven.

In the excavation on Park Row, in
front of the Potter Building, in order
that the New York Steam Heating Com
pany might repair its main pipe, horse
persisted Wednesday morning by roast
ing upon the hot iron pipe. The ami
NAL was three hours dying, and only its
shrllL shrieks of agony, that as time
wore on sank into moaning cries of
almost human intensity, evinced the
torture it suffered. The binding vapor
that fioated over the pit made its fren-
zled struggles unseen.
The horse was owned by Edward
Southard, wholesale newspaper dealer,
of 30 Clinton Place Robert Gordon,
of No. 401 East Seventeenth street, was
driving one of Mr.. Southard's delivery
wagons laden with newspapers. It was
half past four o'clock in the morning
aud very dark. Gordon says that he
was driving rapidly up Park Row, the
wagon wheels rolling along the car
tracks. When just in front of the pit
the horse SHE'D at the white vapor,
caught his right hind hoof in the plank
ing between the tracks, fell, and in his
struggles to regain his footing demol-
ished the barricade of boards and tum-
bled into the hole. Gordon held the
reins until the animal had disappeared
and was dragging the wagon after,
when he leaped out, cut the traces and
left him to his fate.
One of Mr.. Bergh's ambulances was
summoned by telephone at ten minutes
to seven A. M, over two hours after the
accident. Having made sure that the
horse was dead, a derrick was hoisted
over the pit, and one of the society's
employees, a courageous colored man,
jumped in with a spade and felt around
for places to put the rope and chain
gear. Had any life remained in the
horse he would have been kicked and
possibly manned for life if not killed.
The bottom of the hole was much
more narrow than the top, being only
four feet long and two wide, and this
funnel was gridironed by other pipes
besides the large steam main. The
horse lay on his back, wedged so that
his back lay on the hot main, which
had almost cooked the flesh from his
bones. His head was iammed against
the earth and his legs were tangled up
among the pipes. The horse could
u0N6T nave D6Sn IcSCuSu alive, uOT COulu
he have been shot, owing to the blind
ing steam cloud.
Mr.. Berghs society is collecting evi-
dence with the design of suing the
Steam Heating Company for violating
the law, which enforces adequate safe
guards against just such accidents as
this. The company, on the other hand,
have secured two affidavits to the effect
that the fencing was in position and
a red light burning ten minutes before
Mr.. Southard's horse fell. A truckman,
who claims to have seen the whole
affair. told the superintendent of the
society that Gordon was driving fast
along Mail street, from Broadway, and
crashed directly into the barricade.
cit is probable that the company will
make some compromise with Mr.. South
ard" said the superintendent of Mr..
Bergh's society, ''as he cares only for
the value of the horse. We care moth
ing for its value. only for the principle
involved, and will not compromise. =
Nee York
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-01-20
Thought He Saw Double.

The story of the twins is the latest.
A father of twins was naturally very
proud of them, and when they came to
a presentable age he insisted on friend
calling to see them. The friend agreed
and named the day. The twins were
dressed in their best, put side by side in
an arm chair, and awaited inspection.
Now, the friend had been lunching
rather heavily and drinking rather free
ly, and consequently his vision was not
as perfect as it ought to have been.
However, he went 70 admire the twins,
and was ushered into the room where
they were.
"There, " exclaimed the proud father,
"did you ever see anything to match
that?'
The visitor, conscious of the possibili
ty of an optical delusion, quietly re-
piled:
"Quite right; it is splendid child. "
- Whitehall Recieaa,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-01-20
UnsOIved Mysteries.

An unsolved Mystery-How woman
can stand on a cold day, with her sleeves
rolled up, and her head bare, and visit
with her neighbor across the fence, for
fifteen minutes, and not think of taking
cold, and yet cannot SIT in cold church
half an hour, wrapped in furs and
pushes, without shivering all the time,
and sneezing a week to pay for it.
Another-How young man can stand
in front of the store, barc-headed, and
buzz his girl for half an hour without
struggle, and yet can't even go to the
post-ofice without piling on all his
clothing, and then kicking about the
beaStly cold weather
Another-How little girl can go and
slide down hill with the boys all day
long when her throat was so sore IN the
morning she couldn't 90 to school.
Another-How boy can walk toui
miles and skate until after dark, on the
same day his back was so lame that he
couldn't bring in a scuttIeful OF coal tol
his mother. Dda"We Breeze.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-01-20
SIX SONS DEAD VIOLENCE,
Singular Fatality in an Arkansas Mountain
Farmers Family.

LITTLE Rock, Ark.-Silas Case is q
farmer living in Searcy County, in 3
rough log cabin situated in a gulch in
the Boston Mountains, and surrounded
by clearing of many acres in extent,
from which he has earned living for
his wife and nine children-seven sons
and two daughters. All these children
grew up, but only son is living and only
he and the two daughters are beneath
the old roof tree which sheltered them
in infancy. For more than half a CEN
tury Case has dwelt in this mountain
retreat. The nearest neighbor is five
miles distant. The nearest town is
eighteen miles away. One strikes the
railway after a journey of 100 miles
through a virtual wilderness, the wild
and rugged country beng interspersed
here and there with small settlements.
Case himsel; is splendid specimen of
manhood. He is sixty-seven years old,
but straight as an arrow, brave as lion
and strong as giant. He is dead shot
with the rife, and his cabin is stored
with the skins of bears and deer which
have fallen before his unerring aim. In
the war with Mexico he led a company
anu III IAS W dT Vi luc ItD6lllOu uS DC'
gan as private and ended as a captain
on the side of the Union. After hos
tilities ceased he returned to his cabin,
content to end his life in isolation and
solitude.
A strange fatality has attended his
children. Two of his boys were killed
by guerillas during the war. In 1880 the
revenue officers raided "moonshine"
distillery in the Boston Mountains. The
'moonshiners, " though surprised, show
ed fight, and several were wounded,
among them two of the Case boys. They
succeeded in hiding in the underbrush
and thus escaped capture. One died
from the effects of the wound five
months after; the other died in Texas
from the same cause year later. In
1884, in fight on Calf Creek, another
of the boys was fatally stabbed, dying
in few days. To-day the father, who
is in this place with cattle, received
word from Colorado City, Tex, that the
son who accompanied his illfated
brother to the State named had been
shot and killed in quarrel with man
on a ranch sixty miles beyond the town.
Thus six have perished by violent means.
The only surviving son is living quietly
with his father. He has a violent tenn
per, and only by stunning intercourse
as much as possible with his fellowman
can he hopeEto escape the fate which has
overtaken his brothers.